I won’t blame you for thinking the new Dell XPS 16 is just a larger version of the Dell XPS 13 Plus. After all, this laptop shares the former’s compact, minimalist design — just without the “Plus” moniker. That could be a selling point or turn-off, depending on how you felt about the XPS 13 Plus’ design. The Dell XPS 16, for better or worse, replaces the Dell XPS 15 OLED, which is one of the best laptops and Windows laptops I’ve reviewed.
Aside from sharing the same design as the XPS 13 Plus (which is true of the entire Dell XPS lineup) the most notable thing about the Dell XPS 16 is its inclusion of an Intel Core Ultra CPU — which features a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to accelerate AI-driven tasks performed on the laptop. Because of that, Microsoft Copilot and other AI programs should run better on this notebook than on Windows 11 laptops with processors lacking an NPU.
